Quite amazingly it was after more than five years England tasted success against their archrivals in ODIs.

Australia had last lost to England in the shorter version of the game in a World Series match in January 1999. Since then England suffered defeat in 14 consecutive matches before winning this one.

The following table lists the longest losing sequences in ODIs by a side against a particular country.

The Australia - Zimbabwe instance at the top of the table deserves a special mention.

Zimbabwe defeated Australia in the very first encounter between the two countries. Since then Australia have not lost a single match against Zimbabwe.

In fact their winning sequence came to a halt only by a no-result match at Melbourne on 29 Jan 2004. Australia has won three more matches v Zimbabwe since then taking their tally to 25 wins out of 25 result-oriented matches!

Mts	Winner	Loser	Started on	Ended on
22	Australia	Zimbabwe	16 Jun 1983	29 Jan 2004
14	Australia	Sri Lanka	23 Jan 1985	15 Aug 1992
14	South Africa	Pakistan	10 Jan 1995	28 Mar 2000
14	Australia	England	26 Jan 1999	21 Sep 2004
12	Australia	New Zealand	07 Jan 1988	18 Dec 1990
11	Australia	West Indies	30 May 1999	25 May 2003
11	India	New Zealand	25 Jan 1986	01 Mar 1990
11	India	Bangladesh	27 Oct 1988	21 Jul 2004+
11	Pakistan	Zimbabwe	24 Nov 1998	04 Mar 2003
11	Sri Lanka	Bangladesh	02 Apr 1986	23 Jul 2004+
11	Pakistan	Bangladesh	02 Jun 2000	29 Jul 2004+
10	West Indies	Sri Lanka	07 Jun 1975	19 Oct 1989
10	Zimbabwe	Kenya	27 Feb 1996	08 Dec 2002
10	Zimbabwe	Bangladesh	11 Oct 1997	10 Mar 2004

+ still continuing

Note: Zimbabwe's winning run against Kenya came to rest at Harare on 08 Dec 2002 with a no-result match. After this Zimbabwe also defeated Kenya in two more matches making 12 wins out of 12 results oriented matches.